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Cotham-Gibbs Ancestry ~ Maps to Kagay Migrations
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Kagay Family in Pennsylvania
York and Lancaster Counties of Pennsylvania
(1) John Rudolph "Hanse" Kagay's first homestead in America in 1715. The land was described as being 400 acres situated between the banks of Conestoga Creek and Conestoga Township.
(2) One portion of James and Susannah Scott Patterson's lands adjoining Washington Borough and the Susquehanna River. (Parents of Hanse's wife, Rebecca.)
(3) In Captain Thomas Cresap's push to claim land further north for Maryland and Lord Baltimore in 1730 ("Cresap's War"), a fort was built on the west shores of the Susequehanna River near York, and overlooking the land of James and Susannah Patterson. One account claims that Cresap actually took this land on the west bank from Patterson, killing some of Patterson's livestock in the process. Cresap was seized in 1736 and the land returned to the previous owners. The Mason-Dixon line was surveyed as a result, and this region remained part of Pennsylvania.
In Hanse Kagay's will in 1748, it is stated: "I give & bequeath unto my Eldest Son Jacob & my Son Rudolph, my tract of Land Situate on Ye West side of Susquehanah River joyning Yorktown to be equall Divided between them...". Apparently the above same land, or land next to it, in addition to land already owned on the banks of Conestoga Creek, came into ownership by Hanse's family after the death of James Patterson in 1735 (perhaps willed to Rebecca by her father, James?).
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